Kevin Harvick wins, into round 2

Updated 7:23 pm, Sunday, September 25, 2016

Kevin Harvick won Sunday at New Hampshire to earn a spot in the second round of the NASCAR Sprint Cup playoffs, pulling away off a restart a year after a late loss at the track.

Matt Kenseth and dominated the second half of the race Sunday and seemed poised to win the New Hampshire race for the third straight time. Harvick, the 2014 Sprint Cup champion, was able to zip past Kenseth on the final laps and he prevailed to join Martin Truex Jr. in the second round. Truex won the Chase opener at Chicagoland.

College football: LSU fired head coach Les Miles and offensive coordinator Cam Cameron, and promoted defensive line coach Ed Orgeron to interim head coach.

“Coach Miles has done a tremendous job here and he’s been a great ambassador for our University, which makes this even more difficult,” LSU athletic director Joe Alleva said in a statement. “However, it’s apparent in evaluating the program through the first month of the season that a change has to be made.”

Miles, who was in his 12th season, went 114-34 at LSU, the second-most victories in school history behind Charles McClendon’s 137 victories from 1962 to 1979. The Tigers are 2-2 this season. Miles coached the Tigers to a national title in the 2007 season. The 2011 Tigers also reached the national-title game, but lost to Alabama.

Orgeron is a Louisiana native and renowned recruiter. He was a head coach once before in the SEC with Mississippi, but didn’t have a winning record there and was fired after three seasons. He fared better as interim head coach at USC in 2013, going 6-2 in place of Lane Kiffin, who’d been fired that season.

Soccer: Stanford alum Jordan Morris scored his 11th and 12th goals of his rookie season and the visiting Seattle Sounders won 4-2 over the Los Angeles Galaxy.

Hockey: Tomas Tatar scored his second goal 3:43 into overtime, lifting Team Europe to a 3-2 win over Sweden in the World Cup semifinals in Toronto. The eight-nation European team will begin a best-of-three series against Canada on Tuesday night.

Death:Mylan Hicks, a former Michigan State defensive back and 49ers training-camp invitee and a member of the Calgary Stampeders, was killed early Sunday in what the CFL team described as an “act of violence.” He was 23. Police said they were investigating a shooting outside a Calgary nightclub. Three suspects have been arrested.